Ww2

Question 1

Before the war

Answer 1

A young socialist named Benito Mussolini moves from Italy

to Switzerland avoiding military service.

Question 2

Italy switches sides again

Answer 2

Italy had been on the allies’ side in WW1,

They were promised they were going to gain tremendously

Question 3

Bento Mussolini’s rise to power

Answer 3

He then established a dictatorship with himself at its center.
Europe now has its first fascist dictator.

Question 4

Germany and the rise of Hitler

Answer 4

He then established a dictatorship with himself at its center.
Europe now has its first fascist dictator.

Question 5

Hitlers rise to power

Answer 5

bad economy and weak government meant that when a
small, angry man came along and said that he could fix
everything,

Question 6

Start of axis powers

Answer 6

Hitler and Mussolini had a lot of the
same ideas.
More importantly, they had the same
enemies.

Question 7

Japan

Answer 7

Japan had isolated itself from the rest of the world for over 200
years.
Until the united states interfered
Then the western powers imposed many ‘unequal treaties’.

Question 8

Japan

Answer 8

They went to war with china to create a sphere of influence
over Korea,
They took a bunch of china’s land & resources.
The west stepped in and told japan to stop or else…
The west then started setting up spheres of influence on weakened China and Korea

Question 9

Japan

Answer 9

P Japan was understandably upset
And went to war with Russia.
They stunned everyone by actually winning.
Japan fully annexed Korea,
But they didn't stop there...

Question 10

Japan

Answer 10

In WW1, they took Germany’s colonies and islands in Asia.
Then in an incident that was staged by the Japanese army.
A bomb blew up a Japanese train in manchuria.
Giving them an excuse to launch an invasion and take over.

Question 11

Quick Recap

Answer 11

Nazi Germany, fascist Italy and japan,
All believe they're racially superior.
All feel hostility towards the allies,
All wanted to militarize and take more land.
So they did.

Question 12

Let’s start with Germany’s

Answer 12

Hitler hated the treaty of Versailles,
And now he was ready to begin undoing it.
In complete violation of the treaty,
The first Luftwaffe squadrons were set up
Conscription was introduced
Hitler sends his beefed up army to the demilitarized Rhineland with
orders to retreat if the allies showed up
The allies didn’t do anything about it…

Question 13

Allies finally respond

Answer 13

In response to Germany’s aggressiveness the allies
implemented a very useless tactic called appeasement
It went like this…

Question 14

More useless ally tactics

Answer 14

Germany marches its military into Austria and takes it without
resistance
Hitler then demands that Czechoslovakia give Germany back the
Sudetenland (an area of Czechoslovakia with many ethnic Germans)
The allies called a meeting with Hitler and again told him he can have
what he wants as long as he signs a paper saying he wont invade the
rest of Czechoslovakia

Question 15

Hitler invades the rest

Answer 15

Except in a move that surprised no one Hitler invaded

the rest of Czechoslovakia

Question 16

Italy joins the fight

Answer 16

Mussolini wanted an easy fight
He wanted to invade a underdeveloped,
not yet colonized nation that would fight his
tanks with literal bows, arrows, & spears.
He invades Abyssinia
& Also took Albania

Question 17

Japan

Answer 17

Japan stages another incident with china at the Marco polo
bridge
This gives japan an excuse to invade china again
Their forces swept through china with relative ease
During this time is when japan committed arguably the most
shocking atrocities seen in the war.

Question 18

Asian. Holocaust

Answer 18

The Japanese had a top secret military unit called unit 731
This unit tested chemical weapons on Chinese civilians
They also tested pressure chambers
Unit 731 also performed many vivisections on Chinese
civilians who survived their human experiments

Question 19

European invasion

Answer 19

The pact of steel is signed this document made the relationship status of Germany, Italy, &
japan official.
The allies warned Hitler that an invasion on Poland meant war
Hitler then surprises & scares the allies by creating an alliance with Stalin.
In September of 1939 Germany invaded Poland
UK & France declare war on Germany
Poland fights hard but couldn’t compete with the 2 superpowers

Question 20

France

Answer 20

They still used horses, sent messages via motorcycles, orders were
vague, & troops were rarely inspected
They had a line of defenses along the border but never expanded them
They wouldn’t launch artillery strikes against Germany in fear of them
fighting back.
In war they didn’t want to attack the enemy.

Question 21

Uk

Answer 21

the start the English weren’t much better than the French
Chamberlain thought the war could end without violence
Instead of bombing raids they dropped propaganda leaflets over German
cities
One of the English air marshals said that they accomplished nothing but
provide toilet paper for the remainder of the war.
UK also only sent 200,000 men to France while the French marched millions.

Question 22

AVOIDING A 2
ND
GREAT WAR

Answer 22

Both Britain and France wanted to avoid a repeat of the first world war,
They wanted to keep the war as far from home as possible.
So they turned their eyes towards Norway.
Neutral Sweden was exporting iron ore to Germany,
The allies asked them to stop exporting iron ore to Germany.
But this request was refused.

Question 23

Winter war

Answer 23

The soviet union invades Finland.
The allies try to make a deal with Sweden
They promised to help Finland
And in return control of all Swedish iron fields.
Norway and Sweden said no

Question 24

End of bad leadership in the UK

Answer 24

The English tried putting mines in the waters around Norway
Hitler knew what they were up to & swiftly invades Norway
He forces the allies to retreat
Finally after yet another embarrassing failure chamberlain is forced to resign
Winston Churchill takes his place
He had a different approach to fighting the Germans.

Question 25

Beligium

Answer 25

The allies had wanted to place troops in Belgium. But Belgium said no. In a move that surprised pretty much no one. Hitler launched an invasion to get around France's defenses. The allies charged into Belgium at full speed. It looked like a repeat of the first world war was coming. This time, Hitler had a trick up his sleeve, blitzkrieg.

Question 26

Strategic war fare

Answer 26

As the Germans advanced, they sent thousands of refugees west Slowing down the allies. The French had left the Ardennes, an area filled with hills and forests. Under-defended, they thought it was naturally impenetrable. The Germans penetrated through it They smashed 50 Wehrmacht divisions through,

Question 27

Allies nearly defeated

Answer 27

Germany encircled the allied armies at lightning speed. The best of the allied forces were now trapped. The Germans squeezed in from all sides, taking out France's best armies, and nearly wiping out the British, too. But the allies managed to make a desperate last-minute escape at Dunkirk, British civilian ships made the perilous journey to bring their troops home.

Question 28

Hitler does what no other leader could

Answer 28

``` With the French forces gone, The Germans easily took Paris, France had fallen. What the Germans couldn't do in the 4 years of ww1. Hitler had done in a few months. ```

Question 29

I’m refuses to give up hope

Answer 29

Hitler hoped that with the fall of France, the UK would lose hope and sue for peace. But it didn't. He needed to secure the western front. So he tried to force them into submission, with mind games. The UK were now all alone and Hitler wanted to emphasize that. Just before France fell, Italy finally declared war on the allies, making the UK's situation even worse.